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Request to dismantle a clutch, fit a new centre plate, and standardize the crankcase oil breather pipe due to a jaggering issue.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 8\1\  01-page64
Date  30th August 1938
  
To HPC.
c. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}

&12.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /PD.9/JH.30.8.38.

28.C.6.

Will you please have the clutch dismantled and a new centre plate fitted. The present one has been doped with oil on clutch jaggering tests, and is causing the clutch to jagger badly. Make the oil breather pipe on the crankcase standard.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /PD.
  
  
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